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Port Hoyal France . A Contribution . By ...
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138 Notices Of Books.
138 NOTICES OF BOOKS .
Port Hoyal France . A Contribution . By ...
Port Hoyal France . A Contribution . By Charles to Beard the _Histoi , B . A _^ y . of Longman Religion and and Co . terature in
The history of a community such as Port Royal comprises so much varied and extensive _knowledge , that in our limited space it
is impossible to give a definite idea of the book before us . It is peculiarly interesting as containing the lives of many women who
Angeli gave up que home , well , friends known , to and the kindred world , as for the the reformer love of God of the . character La convent Mere
of Port Royal , is the first , and , to us , the most interesting . She was created abbess when only eleven years old , and soon showed by her truthfuldisinterested conduct that she had the
power to reform abuses , and , the wish to reinstate rigorous rales of conventual discipline .
" The first blow was struck at the infraction of the vow ' to have all things in common , ' against which Abbot de Ponterlier had inveighed so stoutly in
its posed 1504 revenues . change There perform : were the , convent however the requisite was , economical poor service ; the difficulties utmost ; and the care prioress in was the necessary way pointed of the to out make pro to - their little stores with
Angeli than ' th que ey would i that ed the the _apj abbess nuns 3 ly to husbanded the ' we man shall agement be better of the able common to fulfil greater stock our , assiduity ' vow In th of at case
poverty , rep . Accordingly , on , March 21 st , 1609 , the day sacred to St . Benedict , broug the chapter founder ht was whatever of held the , privat and great e order prop reform erty from she dul which y possessed inaugurated the Cistercian , and . laid Each was it at an of the offshoot the feet nuns , of a
and the convent abbess testified a quiet . Even b refuge si a poor her from willingness deaf the and hardshi dumb to follow of creature her the life , general who , caug had ht the found ' le infection in Onl the ,
two could of the , for old y nuns while gns , were resolve obdurate to give ; up one a , garden obedient which in every she examp tended other with . respect her y , consolation of her dull monastic lifeBut
own after a strugg d ; at once of a the few pride month and s , she found she could no longer withstan . of her d
little the silent doma forc in in e of a letter the new to her spirit confessor in the . house The , other and enclosed remonstrant the who key manifested in various waher opposition to the superiorwas finall , removed
from the monastery . ys , And again : —
the " wor The not k comp of altogether a lete sing r le eform willing day , a to accom monas ive p t lished ery indulgence like by Por one t R s effort oya which l . The they not , sisterhood had however been ,
the were taug order ht to , co violentl nsider y innocent opposed ; a and ch ange the p monks of manners of Citeaux which , silentl the metropolis y convicted of
h them ouse of _itnfai broug _thfulness ht bac to k to their the rule severity . That which little characterized by little the disci the palmy pline of days the of Clairvauxand throughout all the vicissitudes of the sisterhood was
mainremarkable tained intact ascendancy , till the final which dispersion the abbess in gained 1709 , and must preserved be attributed over the minds the
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1861, page 138, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041861/page/66/
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